By Samyog Bhattarai | Nov 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Aspen and Strides Enter Into Broad and Strategic Partnership

Johannesburg South Africa, and Bangalore, India: Aspen Pharmacare (Aspen), Africa’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer and the largest generics manufacturer in the southern hemisphere, has entered into a series of transactions with Bangalore-based Strides Arcolab Limited (Strides), one of India’s largest exporters of pharmaceutical products. The transactions comprise: the acquisition by Aspen of 50% of Strides’ Latin…

JSE listed Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited, Africa’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer and the largest generic manufacturer in the southern hemisphere, has signed a non-exclusive license and technology transfer collaboration agreement with New York based Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) for the manufacture and distribution of a generic version of Atazanavir, a new generation anti-retroviral (ARV). BMS selected Aspen…

By Samyog Bhattarai | Jan 1, 2006 | Comments Off on Former President Clinton Announces New Agreements to Lower Prices of HIV/AIDS Rapid Tests and Second-Line Drugs

Former President Clinton Announces New Agreements to Lower Prices of HIV/AIDS Rapid Tests and Second-Line Drugs Agreements with Nine Companies Will Lower Prices of HIV Diagnosis and Two HIV/AIDS Medicines by 30-50 Percent for 50 Countries Clinton Also Confirms that Nearly a Quarter-Million People Living with HIV are Benefiting from First-Line HIV/AIDS Drug Agreements his…